While updating pricing on some of our La Flor Dominicana cigars (yes, the online pricing has GONE DOWN for some of these great cigars in the Ligero and Double Ligero lines) , I stumbled on this great article on the La Flor Dominicana blog. It is titled The Power Train and it appears to be a reprint from Cigar Aficionado from February of 2002.

The opener describes a scene that happens sometimes when smokers of milder cigars like the Macanudo or Davidoffs hop on that dragon...

Rich was in trouble. A casual cigar smoker, he had only minutes before put a match to his first real flavor bomb. The small cigar was far stronger than he expected. He stood in the smoking lounge of Morton’s Steakhouse in midtown Manhattan, puffing away with three friends, as beads of sweat sprouted to life on his forehead. The beads then assembled into rivulets, and the pink of his flesh was completely replaced by white. He was about to collapse.

This article is well-worth reading to any serious cigar smoker. I found it quite interesting.

And about those price drops... The prices on a number of our La Flor Dominicana Ligeros (300, 400, 400 Cabinet, 500 and 500 Cabinet) as well as a number of our more popular Double Ligeros (Chisel, Maduro Chisel and 660) have all gone down in price. When was the last time you saw the price on any luxury item such as these exquisite cigars go DOWN in price?